Cyril Connolly Quotes

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?